On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:11:05 -0800, Jan Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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(Dennis P. Harris) wrote:
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>> On Sun, 13 Jul 2008 16:22:10 -0800 in alt.culture.alaska, Jan
>> Flora <snowshoe@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> > I'm wondering if he heard
>> > about or saw Harrison Ford and "Allie McBeal" while they were in SE
last
>> > week.
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>> Harrison stayed in Juneau for a couple of days. One of our
>> cabbies gets all of his business because he just treats him as a
>> normal customer, not some kind of celebrity. He used to manage a
>> convenience store where Harrison shops when he comes to to town,
>> because he made all of the employees ignore who he was so that he
>> could shop in peace.
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>Good. Being treated as a celebrity can range from cool to creepy. Normal
>is good. Not being treated as a celebrity is good.
>
>I used to know Van Morrison's parents. They owned a print shop in
>Fairfax, California (where the Grateful Dead live/d). A girl got a job
>in the print shop, hoping that Morrison would eventually come visit his
>mother and the girl could meet him. That's creepy. The mom fired the
>girl when mom figured it out.
>
>When I asked Tom Bodett if he liked writing better than pounding nails
>(he used to be a carpenter here in Homer), he said, "Yeah, it's good
>work, if you can get it."
>
>But Bodett always had tourists knocking on his door, wanting to come in
>and have coffee with him. That was creepy, so he gave the house to his
>ex-wife and moved out of town. And everyone in town made a pact to not
>ever tell anyone where Tom lived.
>
>Most celebrities are pretty normal people -- they are just really good
>at what they do for work and sometimes they make a lot of money doing
>it. Otherwise, they're just meatballs like the rest of us, doing the
>best that they can to figure things out and get along in the world.
>
>
> Jan
My celebrity story is about when Edmund Hillary visited Seattle after
his publicity trip to Nepal to check out the Abominable Snowman legend
for the World Book Encyclopedia company and a visit to the World's
Fair in Seattle, where my folks lived on Lake Wa****ngton.
Hillary gave a talk downtown about the Abominable Snowman and his
experience with Mt. Everest and Mallory, then came home for dinner,
along with some friends. He had recently received his "Sir" title
from the Queen and had the following anecdote to share about his
dinner experience with royalty, who were casually discussing
Abominable Snowmen.
Queen's Consort, HRH The Prince Philip, in jocular mood, to Queen
Elizabeth II: "Do you know how to tell the difference between a snow
man and a snow woman?"
Queen Elizabeth: "No".
Prince Philip: "Snowballs".
I thought Hillary was both a down to earth bloke, a bee-keeper from
New Zealand, and a classy gent who did some extraordinary things. Most
people don't know he helped carry an aluminum building on his back
into the hills of Nepal to establish a school for people he admired.
About who got to the peak of Mt. Everest first, he joked that in any
case he was a lot taller than his Sherpa guide, so was highest on the
mountain. bookburn
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